PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

While some markets may be seeing relatively slower adoption of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) than others, there’s no denying that the overall popularity of mobile and contactless payments are growing fast among consumers. To find out more news and trends, download the Tracker. In markets like the U.S., About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. The study also found three key areas of competence for retailers looking to remain competitive in the emerging digitized markets: 1. As of today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Perhaps the most important thing for retail executives to understand outside of the “early days” perspective is that AI is going to morph from an engineering-only property to marketing and from a big-scale retailers to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). I don’t know the trends for next year. Round one: AI wins.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released a new report that suggests corporate bankers may be able to halt shrinking profits through digital transformation. The trend is even worse among Western European FIs, with shrinking profits prevalent among 57 percent of institutions in this region, reports said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In its Q2 earnings statement , Sunstone Properties said that “after reaching a trough in April, the Company began to see hotel demand slightly improve in May and June, most significantly in leisure travel, which benefited its hotels in drive-to leisure markets.” That is equivalent to the entire size of hotel markets in Louisville, Ky.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Amazon , in one case, has added a suburban Boston location to its roster of Amazon 4-star stores, marking the fifth location of its type in the United States. The Natick Mall store carries products that are top sellers or new and trending on Amazon’s website. The used-fashion market in the U.S. On another note, vacancies in U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

A paper published by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) described today as a critical moment in banking history as players face pressure from alternative players and corporate clients that demand newer, better services. The time for this radical shift is now,” Boston Consulting Group declared.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

More than two-thirds of marketers are still failing to capitalize on this outreach method, however, spotlighting a massive missed opportunity. The PYMNTS Digital Consumer Onboarding Tracker® , a partnership with Melissa , examines the latest KYC, digital onboarding and online verification news and trends. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year. To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse. The discount merchant’s net sales were $9.78

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Another online bill payment trend is a move away from banks for those transactions. It cites a figure from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that says more than 80 percent of rent payments are made via cash or paper checks. The rental industry could well be the next market to undergo that shift.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

Meanwhile, Boston-based international payments and receivables solution Flywire recently announced a collaboration with PayPal to process payments from students and patients using the Flywire platform. With the new partnerships, dLocal, which already has a presence in the U.S., About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers. Online sportsbooks and esports wagering — either via apps or websites and even inside some casinos — is bucking the COVID-19 trend with impressive numbers even as real sports are, to a large degree, sidelined.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

With so many mobile order-ahead apps on the market, customers have never been so spoiled when picking somewhere to eat. According to Brent Feldman, chief marketing officer for Boston-based fast-casual eatery B.GOOD , the best way to figure out what customers wanted out of its app was to listen to them. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. To read the story and for all the latest news and trends from around the Omni space, check out the latest Tracker. Bringing Online to the Real World . About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The aim is to stay on top of the latest digital commerce trends to remain relevant. That mindset “is becoming increasingly necessary if retailers want to remain competitive in the market,” the index found. More than six in 10 health and beauty firms — or 61.7 percent — cited improving customer loyalty as the motivation for innovation.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This is the next article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. The majority of submissions in the Products category came from banks in developing markets, with only a handful from large global banks.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This is the next article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. The majority of submissions in the Products category came from banks in developing markets, with only a handful from large global banks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

With the help of Robomart , a startup based in California, the grocery chain plans to bring produce, convenience items and meal kits to the customers’ doors through roving autonomous mobile stores in the Boston area. In other news, Whole Foods Market is reportedly scrapping its plan to expand its 365 stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

According to previous reports, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020. And news surfaced last year that Walmart was opening a health clinic in Georgia with a deeper move into the market for primary and mental healthcare.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Joe Rohrlich, who is the chief revenue officer of Bazaarvoice, a digital marketing firm, said per the report, “Direct-to-consumer is an outstanding strategy for building loyalty, advocacy and overall brand ethos in the early days of a business.” To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston. Uber is the heavyweight ridesharing company here, with 55 percent of the market, and Lyft held 8 percent, said Certify. million vehicles annually.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

The move comes amid a general trend in all areas of payments and commerce to move beyond the limitations and security risks that come with older forms of ID authentication and verification. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! – we can also expect more voice-assistant retail as part of the games.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The Staples Connect concept, which offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, debuted in multiple Boston area stores on Feb. Each Staples Connect store also has marketing and technology services, among other offerings. To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

trillion gap in available trade finance, non-bank players have flooded the market to address the demand — and introduce efficiencies to an area of finance that has historically been bogged down by paper, manual processes and burdensome compliance requirements. “We’re talking about $1.5 “We’re talking about $1.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

billion annually if it renegotiates to the now-lower market rates. The publication said that late payments have been cited by companies ranging from Bechtel to Boston Consulting Group. The impact to power producers would mean the company could reject supplier contracts and pay less on those claims, saving as much as $2.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Calculating how long lockdown trendlines can continue before plateauing or falling off is now the fixation of most CEOs and CFOs, as they closely watch the progress of market-makers. There are some certainties.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This is the third article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. Articles from this week on will explore some of the broader themes within each category.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. the domestic market for legal cannabis in 2018 was $9.1 Our trending beauty initiative is a way we are differentiating ourselves from competitors,” D’Angelo noted.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The eCommerce giant has reportedly been in talks with middle market pharmacy benefit managers to arrange a contract. The target market would be the uninsured and customers with high deductibles who pay cash for their prescription drugs. Setting Trends. Amazon may be getting into the mail order pharmacy business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Josh Glover, EVP of the Americas at banking technology provider nCino, said that when it comes to corporate banking and lending, the end-user experience is just as much of a focus for traditional banks engaging in digital transformation as it is in the consumer banking market.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2017

We’ve examined previous unicorn valuations including Dropbox , Airbnb , and Blue Apron and compared WeWork’s current and projected valuation data, using CB Insights’ Enhanced Valuation capability, against those posted by a few of its public-market counterparts. Boston Properties reportedly has 43.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Everyone knows retailers are in trouble — at this point, the whole market knows it. That is the good news — there’s the potential to turn a negative trend into a positive one. But that potential is not all that easy to tap into, particularly for the largest and most established players in the market. “If

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Indeed, it does not take extensive examination to see, in Wayne Gretzgy’s words, “where the puck is going” Digital needs to be a top technology priority among financial institutions – particularly in highly digitally-directed markets such as North America and Western Europe.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are three predictions I see as major trends to look for in the technologies in the next few months. According to technology research firm Celent in Boston, the mobile user base will increase from 33 million in 2014 to 47 million in 2015. Highlighting Technology Trends'

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. Because they are special to us.”. Since then, what seemed a novel concept has become the norm.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

That trend continued in the second quarter and looks likely to be a dominant trait in the 2020s, only a few months away. The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. Starbucks Delivery. To take one example, look at the Starbucks results from Q2.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States. marketing director, told the Huffington Post. “We And perhaps most critically, do the dishes when we’re done.). And on that front, PYMNTS can offer few solutions.

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